Beginning in 2009 (for degrees awarded in August, 2009) all theses and dissertations completed at Washington University were required to be submitted in electronic form. Print submissions are no longer accepted. Dissertations are submitted directly in electronic form to UMI / Proquest Dissertation Services. Master’s theses are locally submitted in electronic form directly into the Washington University Open Scholarship Repository. Please contact your academic department document for information on the preparation and formatting requirements of the thesis itself.
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Biotic Interactions and the Maintenance of Biodiversity across a Tropical Elevational Gradient, David Henderson
Investigating the Role of BHLHE40 in Host Responses to Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection and Myeloid Cell Development, Skyler Hendrix
How Prefixation, Onset Length, and Coda Length Determine Lexical Stress Assignment when Reading Aloud, Kayla Hensley
“Safe People and Safe Spaces:” Filipino American Identity Formation in Response to Local Social Contexts, Cilka Mayumi Hijara
A Quantitative Analysis of Preschoolers’ English Consonant Spellings: Teasing Apart the Influences of Frequencies, Phonetics, and Children’s Own Names, Jayde Elizabeth Homer
The Role of Phenylacetic Acid (PAA) Catabolism in Acinetobacter Physiology, Anna Josephine Hooppaw
Edgar 10X filings’ sentiment and predicting a firm’s stock return, James Horn
Unveiling the Songshi Mystery - Popular Image of Litigation Masters in Traditional China, Meizhu Hou
Pragmatic Ambiguities: Aphoristic Thinking in the American Nineteenth Century, Thomas W. Howard
Topics in International Finance, Jonathan Lennon Hsu
Haar Multipliers in the Context of Weighted Spaces and Bilinear Operators, Weiyan Huang
A generalized Kodaira vanishing theorem for Lie algebroids and a Riemann–Roch theorem for singular foliation, Tengzhou Hu
Single-Molecule Super-Resolution Imaging of Geobacter sulfurreducens under Anaerobic Conditions, Ziyi Hu
Reflectance Quantitative Polarized Light Imaging for Microstructural Evaluation of Musculoskeletal Soft Tissues, Leanne Elizabeth Iannucci
Between-Task Transfer of Learned Control Settings: How Far Can It Go?, Merve Ileri Tayar
Essays on Urban Economics, Yuichi Imai
DFCP1 Regulates Lipid Droplet Catabolism in an NTPase-Dependent Manner, Victoria Anne Ismail
“The Talk” The impact of police contact on youth reports of parental engagement in preparation for encounters with police among a racially diverse sample of youth, Ashley Nicole Jackson
Heterogeneity of Human Tissue-Resident Lymphocytes, Natalia Jaeger
“In those men see yourselves”: The Sienese Production of Illustrious Men, 1125-1555, Julie James
Uncovering the genetic basis underlying the Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato strain DC3000’s response to IAA and its role in regulating PtoDC3000 biology, Joshua Michael Brian Johnson
“We’re not a band that everybody gets”: Parsing the Spectacle of They Might Be Giants, Rachel Eliza Jones
The Cyborg Animal in the Anthropocene: Nonhuman Species’ Narratives of Survival in Contemporary German and North American Literature, Rebecca Jordan
Inter-areal Communication in Posterior Parietal Cortex Supporting Eye-hand and Bimanual Coordination, Jung Uk Kang
Prosthetic Traveling Companions, Carrie Keasler
THE VOICE OF ONE CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS, Megan Kenyon
Silhouette, Safwan Khatib
Leyla Erbil’s A Strange Woman as the Undoing of Shame and the Discovery of Self, Gönül Kığılcım
The Situation, Sydney Kilcoyne
Designing Social Connection: Older adults and the Infrastructure of Social Encounters, Bomin Kim
Is It A Wild, Wild Life You Lead?, Nora Kipnis
Ca2+ Dynamics and Genome Protection, Lingzhen Kong
Identification and Characterization of Targets of Metastasis in High-Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer, Emilee Nicole Kotnik
Legends of Light: Crafting middle grade fantasy in the tradition of Catholic philosophy and medieval visual culture, Bernadette Lamb
Calculating the Difference in Stiffness of Living T Cells Through Micropipette Aspiration, Minju Lee
other oceans, other skies, Sharlene Lee
Thermodynamics and Kinetics Analyses of CLC-ec1 Dimerization Reaction in Lipid Bilayers, Taeho Lee
TAFopathies Result from Derangements in Transcriptional Regulation of Metabolism, Jamison Maxwell Leid
Possibilities of Performance: Sexuality, Pastiche, and Feminist Thought in Kurahashi Yumiko’s “Keiko-san Series”, Emily Frances Levine
Social Anxiety and Romantic Conflict: Examining Prospective Interpersonal Dynamics, Julia Levitan
Construction of a Human Pangenome Reference to Improve Structural Variation Detection, Wen-Wei Liao
Mechanisms of Immunopathology and Protection in Genital Herpes Simplex Virus 2 Infection, Ying Shiang Lim
Uncovering the Determinants of Compositionally Distinct, Coexisting Biomolecular Condensates, Andrew Zijia Lin
Histamine production by airway resident Haemophilus species induces rhinitis, Michael Lint
Mass Spectrometry-Based Characterization of Protein Higher Order Structure: Method Developments and Applications, Yanchun Lin
Market Making in Limit Order Books with Latency and Running Inventory Control, Chang Liu